PORTO-SANTENSES VALUES - PORTO SANTO ISLAND ASPIRING THE UNESCO BIOSPHERE RESERVE

Although small, the island of Porto Santo contains heritage values ​​of undoubted importance in the local, regional and international context.

We want to make you aware of the aspects of Porto Santo's identity that make the island of Porto Santo a very special territory and which support our candidacy for UNESCO's Biosphere Reserve.

Walking routes

Engaging in forest spaces, traversing trails and footpaths and treading the island's pinnacles is an excellent opportunity to discover the traditional knowledge used for centuries in the modeling of nature, creating terraces and conquering soil, which would otherwise be squandered by the wind and the torrentiality of precipitation, in a perfect symbiosis between the work of man and the will of nature. The wisdom of the tireless worker, who in art and equipped with rudimentary traditional instruments, offers us the testimony of such toil in the conquest of the land and the greenery that touches the sceneries of the island's landscapes. Sublime deeds perfectly rooted in the expression of the population of Porto Santo, a legacy of knowledge preserved in the memory and culture of a people.

Porto Santo, like you there is no equal!

Application of the island of Porto Santo to the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve